Global Mormonism in the 21st Century

Press Release:

Book about globalization of Mormonism released by RSC

Scholarly observers of the Christian tradition—of which The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is a part—are beginning to expand their visions of a Christian past, present, and future to embrace a truly global Christianity.  International Church history is Church history. Much of the history of the LDS Church occurred abroad. The Restoration of the gospel continues every time a new country is dedicated by apostolic authority for proselyting. There is still a gap in international Church history, though.

This gap results from a number of misguided beliefs: international Church history is too recent to chronicle, the hub of Mormon studies is northern Utah, or international Church history lacks the pizzazz of early American Mormonism, to name just a few. Lack of foreign-language proficiency is a valid barrier as well.

Taken from seventeen years of conferences done on the globalization of Mormonism, Global Mormonism in the 21^st Century is a start to filling in this gap of history. The international Society, backed by Brigham Young University’s David M. Kennedy Center for International Studies, Marriott School of Management, J. Reuben Clark Law School, Department of Educational Leadership, and Alumni Association, has hosted these annual conferences in Provo, Utah. The editor, Reid L. Neilson, has taken twenty of the presentations from these conferences and organized them into five themed parts. The result is a start to telling these non-North American stories with greater frequency and with better skill.

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